Water stands in much of the area around downtown New Orleans seven days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Sept. 5, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, battering ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

Years After Katrina is a collaborative production presented by the Apollo Theater, the National Black Arts Festival, and Spelman College for a series of 10-minute plays reflecting on Katrina’s lasting ...

It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Bayou. The storm lasted from August 23 to 31, 2005. Overall, the extent of the damage and destruction was not fully understood ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (2005 Staff file) Michael Boyd navigates a commandeered boat through flooded streets. Boyd volunteered to take other volunteers out on his fishing boat to search for ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...

Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...

Houston and South Louisiana have a lot of commonalities, but no single thing may have united both places more than the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.